What does striving mean?
Striving means present participle and gerund of strive.
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/ˈstɹaɪvɪŋ/ · verb
present participle and gerund of strive.
Repudiating the excessive sexualism of Freud and insisting upon the importance of the food-seeking impulse, especially in childhood, he regards all the primary impulses as differentiations of one fundamental energy, the life force which sustains all our strivings, both conscious and unconscious […]
Sexual virility, coital potency rides high and arrogant over the commercial, artistic, social strivings of contemporary society[.]
Do we really want all those strivings and contrivings—all those thoughts and assumptions someone has cleverly etched into the hardware and software we are using—to remain invisible?
Use striving when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Striving means present participle and gerund of strive.
Common synonyms include strain, nisus, pains.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Repudiating the excessive sexualism of Freud and insisting upon the importance of the food-seeking impulse, especially in childhood, he regards all the primary impulses as differentiations of one fundamental energy, the life force which sustains all our strivings, both conscious and unconscious […]
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